Collins, right, married Brunson Green, a film producer, in May 2025.Credit...Kevin Winter/Getty Images
Collins, right, married Brunson Green, a film producer, in May 2025. Credit... Kevin Winter/Getty Images
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Russia Keeps Attacking U.S. Firms in Ukraine. The White House Is Silent.
Facilities tied to Coca-Cola, Cargill, Mondelez and others appear to have been deliberately hit. The Trump administration’s muted response has raised concerns. A rescue worker at a Philip Morris factory in Kharkiv, Ukraine, which was hit in a Russian missile strike in January. Credit... Viktoriia Yakymenko/Global Images Ukraine, via Getty Images By Constant Méheut Constant Méheut has reported extensively on U.S.-Ukraine business ties under the Trump administration. May 12, 2026 Updated 6:46 a.m. ET The Russian drones slammed into the American-owned warehouses one after another. Each announced its arrival with an eerie whine. Then came the blasts, ripping through a vast grain terminal in southern Ukraine and lighting up the night sky. Seven drones in three minutes. The target, according to a video of the mid-April attack recorded by a truck driver, was the U.S. farming giant Cargill. “ This is insane,” the driver is heard repeating in the video, which was obtained and v...
Ukraine fears US will again push a deal giving Russia 'a lot' and Kyiv nothing
Americans are, in principle, willing to do this [JB: see above headline mentioning US ] , a Ukrainian source familiar with the talks said. By Tim Zadorozhnyy, The Kyiv independent , May 11, 2026 7:01 PM 7 min read The below Tim Zadorozhnyy article contains informative links (and photos which my modest computer was unable to reproduce). The U.S. is attempting to broker a temporary ceasefire deal between Ukraine and Russia in exchange for sanctions relief for Moscow, the Kyiv Independent has learned, trying to revive stalled talks as Washington looks for a foreign policy breakthrough. The effort is already triggering alarm in Kyiv. Sources familiar with the talks say the framework lacks one thing that Kyiv considers essential: security guarantees to prevent Russia from resuming the war. "They want Ukraine to agree to as much as possible, or at the very least not to stand in the way," one person fa...
"The Americans are, in principle, willing to do this," a Ukrainian source familiar with the talks said./ by Tim Zadorozhnyy/
May 11, 2026 "The Americans are, in principle, willing to do this," a Ukrainian source familiar with the talks said. by Tim Zadorozhnyy The Kyiv Independent , May 11, 2026 7:01 PM/ 7 min read President Donald Trump greets Russia’s President Vladimir Putin Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)/ The renewed push comes as U.S. President Donald Trump unexpectedly announced a three-day ceasefire from May 9–11 in Russia's war against Ukraine — a move widely interpreted as an attempt to ensure Moscow could hold its Victory Day parade. "It'd be nice" if the ceasefire lasted longer than three days, Trump later told reporters. But his remarks have raised a question now hanging over the negotiations: what exactly does the Kremlin expect to receive in return for a longer truce?/ Despite numerous rounds of U.S.-mediated negotiations involving Ukraine and Russia, diplomacy has produced no meaningful break...